The haunting journal of Agnolo di Tura reveals the horrors of the Black Plague. During the Black Plague, death came so fast that proper Christian burials became impossible. In Siena, mass graves ...

Ancient gravestones in Kyrgyzstan hint the Black Death began long before it reached Europe. A spike in gravestones from 1338 in Kyrgyzstan led historian Philip Slavin to theorize that the Black Death ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities. All this was true of covid-19. It was also true of the Black Death. As ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the historical medical practices and survival methods used during the ...

Written with great sensitivity to the “considerable psychological burden that unimaginable loss and the constant threat of ...